# It's time for another installment of MOVIE LINES YOU USE IN EVERYDAY LIFE! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586 "2011-09-08T05:11:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/141 "2011-09-10T19:55:38Z")
My daughter and I both have the habit of saying “I carried a watermelon” when we relate some awkward experience. Also “Nobody puts Baby in the corner!” Both from\*\* Dirty Dancing\*\*, which really wasn’t that big a deal of a movie to either of us. Also, “That’ll do, pig” but I have a feeling everyone who’s ever seen that movie says the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/142 "2011-09-10T21:04:57Z")
“Game over, man! Game over!” When someone was making fun of my new Fit: “She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts.” I once muttered to a friend “Pathetic humans! Who can save you now?” when our hated boss walking into a meeting and stretched it out another 15 minutes. (I know it’s not technically a movie quote.) ---
**Author:** ![Oogly\_Woogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ee7513/32.png) [@Oogly\_Woogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oogly_Woogly)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/143 "2011-09-10T21:52:07Z")
Refund?! Refund?! from Breaking Away. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/144 "2011-09-11T07:20:18Z")
A few more came up today: From **Anchorman** : “It’s science.” (Used by Ron Burgandy after claiming that women have brains half the size of men’s brains, and used by me on this occasion after speculating that women in town seem to get hopelessly drunk after one beer because women generally have a lower tolerance for alcohol than most men) “Go back to your home on Whore Island!” and “No, too many people died last year.” (Said by Brick in the outtakes when asked if there was going to be another picnic this year) From **Dumb and Dumber** (I think): “So you’re saying there’s a _chance_…!” (Whenever told that someone totally refuses to do something) From **Meatballs** : “It just doesn’t matter! It just doesn’t matter!” And from **Full Metal Jacket** : “What is your major malfunction, Private Pyle??” (possibly misquoted) ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/145 "2011-09-11T08:42:29Z")
When I’m stumped trying to do something on a computer, I pick up the mouse, hold it to my mouth and say “Hellooo Computer…”, mimicing Scotty in **Star Trek IV** When I figure the problem out, I say “Ah…I see…the files are _in_ the computer” from **Zoolander** ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/146 "2011-09-11T21:28:06Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > From Hot Fuzz > > By the power of Greyskull! That’s He-Man! They were doing exactly what we’re talking about in this thread. [quote=“Bordesley, post:131, topic:595586”] > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Do or do not, there is no try- Empire Strikes Back. > > The mention of The Empire Strikes Back reminds me of the inspiration behind the title. Lichfield in Staffordshire is a cathedral city and interestingly the cathedral has three spires, during the latter part of the 18th centruy, the citizens of Lichfield awoke one October morn to find a giant bat impaled on one of the end spires. The following day the local rag ran the headline THE END SPIRE STRIKES BAT and that was the inspirational headline behind the Star Wars films and in particular The Empire Strikes Back. I’m sceptical that the headline and movie title happened that way round. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/147 "2011-09-11T22:26:40Z")
_ **Never give up, never surrender!** _ From Galaxy Quest. I use it when my sports team is facing insurmountable odds. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/148 "2011-09-12T00:49:47Z")
some Star Wars lines that I use whenever possible: “I have a bad feeling about this.” “Don’t underestimate the Force.” (to my physics students) “That’s no moon.” (whenever someone mentions how bright or big the moon looks tonight) “Who’s more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?” “Laugh it up, fuzzball.” “It is useless to resist.” ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/149 "2011-09-12T00:50:02Z")
"She turned me into a Newt! I got better" “Help, help, I’m being oppressed!” “A wedding. I love weddings, drinks all around!” holds out wrists. “I know. Clap him in irons, right?” “What’s with today, today?” “Oh Jesus! What color was it, bitch?” But I’m more likely to paraphrase movie dialogue than directly quote it. Like the [dead hookers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avnlVqtAVsc) scene from Dirty Work. “There’s a dead hooker in this trunk. There’s dead hookers in all of these trunks!” Or “Man goes into the cage, cage goes into the water. Shark’s in the water.” ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/150 "2011-09-12T02:04:57Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > _ **Never give up, never surrender!** _ > > From Galaxy Quest. I use it when my sports team is facing insurmountable odds. Isn’t that line stolen from Churchill? ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/151 "2011-09-12T02:27:52Z")
Other lines used in daily phouka life: - “I’m shocked - _shocked_ - to find [insert verb] going on in this establishment!” - Casablanca. - “Have fun stormin’ da castle, boys! [sub]Think it’ll work?/Not a chance[/sub] BUHBYE!” - Princess Bride - “Stay on target!” - Star Wars (used when someone (usually me) has a hard time staying on topic) - “Shouldn’ta said that.” - Hagrid, Harry Potter I - “Patience, grasshopper.” - Kung Fu tv show? I used it all the time when doing tech support. - “It’s like _Gone With The Wind_ on mescaline!” - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Good for all odd situations. - “I have a plan.” “But, sir, we’re not allowed to liquify the Earthlings’ brains.” _pause_ “All right! I have another plan!” - Third Rock from the Sun. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/152 "2011-09-12T02:30:53Z")
Oh, and the one phoukabro and I actually tag-teamed our mom on and nearly drove her around the bend. “blah blah blah embiggen blah blah blah,” said me. “Embiggen? That’s not a word!” phoukamom declared. “It’s a perfectly cromulent word,” says phoukabro. We were walking to the car, and Mom nearly went inside to get the dictionary before we admitted it was a Simpsons quote. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/153 "2011-09-12T03:22:49Z")
My husband and I use a line from The Golden Child whenever we find ourselves in a tricky situation. One of us will always mutter “There’s a bottom, Monty”. We tend to use"Well, Nancy…but I don’t know if that’s from a movie or something Ronald Reagan said in a speech or what. Also, “There’s going to a tragedy, everybody out of the pool”. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/154 "2011-09-12T03:30:54Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Isn’t that line stolen from Churchill? I hope not, because the humor comes from the fact that it’s redundant and kind of silly. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/155 "2011-09-12T12:59:41Z")
Said a lot this weekend: “Bear Left.” “Right, Frog.” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/156 "2011-09-12T15:17:29Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > _ **Never give up, never surrender!** _ > > From Galaxy Quest. I use it when my sports team is facing insurmountable odds. I use this in rugby games, when we’re so tired we can barely run… and sometimes a couple of teammates’ll join in on the second half of the phrase. And sometimes. when the field of play has become so randomized (more Brownian Motion than strategy), and the only thing we can do is just get it closer to the opponents’ goal, I shout out a phrase from a Might-Be-A-Movie-Someday: “Remember: the enemy’s gate is DOWN!” Ender’s Game – in context, it’s a rallying cry to think strategically in 3 dimensions… read the book ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/157 "2011-09-12T15:22:35Z")
“Sonsabitchin Bumpuses!!” - Ralphie’s dad - when the neighbor’s dogs start barking. Also when cut off in traffic. "Son of a _bitch!"_ - Ralphie - Works for any occasion “Meatloaf, schmeatloaf, double beatloaf.” - Randy - works for any food. “I like (whatever); do you like (whatever)?” - the kid in goggles who’s in line to see Santa - standard response to almost anything, and said in that same flat, nasal voice. “Shitter’s full!” - Cousin Eddie - When camping in the RV “That’s a high quality item, Clark.” - Cousin Eddie - When we see a free furniture item set out on the curb. “Non-nutritive cereal varnish: it’s permeable but non-osmotic” - Clark Griswold - when reading ingredients on a label. “I should do that?” - Aunt Bethany - Our standard response (in a squeaky Bethany voice) to each other when one of us says “You should. . .” “And then depression set in.” - Bill Murray, _Stripes_ ---
**Author:** ![cuberdon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@cuberdon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuberdon)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/158 "2011-09-12T17:40:12Z")
“But wait, there’s more!” From every sleazy television commercial for Snuggies, Thighmaster, Clap On Clap Off, Flowbee, Ginsu knives, you name it. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-another-installment-of-movie-lines-you-use-in-everyday-life/595586/159 "2011-09-12T17:49:56Z")
Another one- “notafinger!” from A Christmas Story, when I want someone to not touch something I’ve put down for a minute. Yesterday I was baking zucchini bread and it was cooling on the rack and I told my hubby not to pick at because “You’ll get worms!”. Also, A Christmas Story. That ones a gold mine. ---
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